Whizzard says, "The Wage Slaves." ddyte asks, "The Beagle Boys are beagles or humans?" You say, "oh, right" neild exclaims, "Augh!" You say, "ooh, good point, dd." mamster exclaims, "I like it!" You say, "wait, I know" Whizzard says, "They'll have prison stripes." You exclaim, "*pluto* is not a dog!" neild is laughing hysterically. "Iron bird..." You exclaim, "that explains everything!" Adventurer's Lounge Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface - the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north. Recently, this seems to have been converted into some kind of game room. A wooden coffee table is surrounded by several chairs, cushions and pillows. On the coffee table you can see an interesting board game. You can see: board game, dartboard, painting, blackboard, magazines, Ronco Spray-on Hair, Ronco Pocket Fisherman, DorianX, Ronco Nite Lite (tm), "I'm Too Stupid for I-0" support group, No Middle Name Support Group, a prize for the 1997 IF competition, stein, the Abbott, adr, Blob, robot mouse, orc, fatted calf, Whizzard2, Ellison, neild, Whizzard, mamster, ddyte Visible Exits: east, north neild says, "I had forgotten the Beagle Boys." mamster asks, "What is Pluto?" ddyte exclaims, "Eeeagh!" You say, "he's obviously not an animal, because all the animals are humanoid" neild laughs and laughs. mamster asks, "The Beastie Boys were in disney cartoons?" You say, "therefore, he's a *plant*" mamster howls again. You say, "one of those venus flytraps or something that can move." mamster is going to see Run-DMC soon. neild finds a reference to "dog-faced demons." That's not it. Whizzard says, "Pluto's a human. The animals took over and forced the humans to be pets." Ellison says, "hmmmm, I don't know... don't some flowers sing in 'Alice'... that's more than Pluto can do" mamster exclaims, "Four legs good, two legs better!" ddyte says, "So Abe Lincoln walks into this gay bar. He sees Goofy and says `Eeagh! Iron Bird!' then drops his pie on the floor." Whizzard takes out his ugly stick. neild melts into a puddle of laughter. mamster says, "I think Animal Farm is great. Everyone reads it in school and it's easy to refer to in many situations." Ellison asks, "the key lime or the chocolate something?" mamster says, "Thus making you seem far more literate than you actually are." Whizzard beats ddyte within an inch of his life. mamster says, "Chocolate coconut." You say, "clever." mamster says, "Coconut Corn." neild agrees with mamster. ddyte says, "Ouch." You say, "I wish i could make more references to stuff" You say, "I think I'm not neo-victorian enough" mamster says (to inky), ""Just put & before them." mamster says, "[NERD JOKE ALERT]" ddyte says, "Adam sure knows his classics. Seven o'clock, time for pie." mamster giggles. Whizzard says, "Hey inky, just make snide references to Avalon. You've played it, they haven't. ;)" inky enters the dangerous zone when everything seems much funnier than it is. Adventurer's Lounge Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface - the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north. Recently, this seems to have been converted into some kind of game room. A wooden coffee table is surrounded by several chairs, cushions and pillows. On the coffee table you can see an interesting board game. You can see: board game, dartboard, painting, blackboard, magazines, Ronco Spray-on Hair, Ronco Pocket Fisherman, DorianX, Ronco Nite Lite (tm), "I'm Too Stupid for I-0" support group, No Middle Name Support Group, a prize for the 1997 IF competition, stein, the Abbott, adr, Blob, robot mouse, orc, fatted calf, Whizzard2, Ellison, neild, Whizzard, mamster, ddyte Visible Exits: east, north Ellison says, "I wish I could make good allusions, but I don't even like Shakespear" You say, "hmm, good point," mamster says, "I wish I could make good illusions, but I'm no Doug Henning. But once I saw him perform, and he was really good." neild says, "I've never seen Doug hen." Ellison says, "I saw the movie 'Beautiful Girls' which I thought made great references... but I could never do that" You say (to Whizzard), "you know, I was thinking maybe you should take out the puzzle where you have to triply-integrate the multi-variable logarithmic function in order to fend off the demon goddess." mamster says, "I'm going to need to check out any minute. This is your warning." Whizzard asks, "Why?" (From neild) The crowd goes, "Awwwwww..." Whizzard says, "It seemed very straightforward." Ellison Test neild exclaims, "Uh-oh, an Ellison test!" Ellison says, "doh, it's like emote" ddyte says, "> ASK NEWTON TO INTEGRATE LOGARITHMIC FUNCTION" Whizzard says, "The resultant equation is simply the goddesses' secret name." neild exclaims, "And I haven't studied!" Ellison says, "hehe, neil" You exclaim (to ddyte), "hey, you looked at the hints!" mamster says (to Whizzard), "But I loved the puzzle wherein you had to stock the pie case with Coconut Corn Meringue in order to attract slinky grad students." Ellison exclaims, "haha!" You say, "woo woo, slinky grad students" Adventurer's Lounge Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface - the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north. Recently, this seems to have been converted into some kind of game room. A wooden coffee table is surrounded by several chairs, cushions and pillows. On the coffee table you can see an interesting board game. You can see: board game, dartboard, painting, blackboard, magazines, Ronco Spray-on Hair, Ronco Pocket Fisherman, DorianX, Ronco Nite Lite (tm), "I'm Too Stupid for I-0" support group, No Middle Name Support Group, a prize for the 1997 IF competition, stein, the Abbott, adr, Blob, robot mouse, orc, fatted calf, Whizzard2, Ellison, neild, Whizzard, mamster, ddyte Visible Exits: east, north Whizzard says, "Hmm. I can see I'm going to need some revenge." ddyte says, "But if you switch pies the game becomes unwinnabvle for you. Although you may npot realise at the time." User On Idle Doing adr 03d14 08h28 persuading dodecahedrons neild 01h14 01m04 = Racing the clock to October 1st. Spatch 01h14 49m39 RAMPANT UNIVERSAL ESPLODING Ellison 01h09 00m31 stuff and stuff Whizzard 56m14 00m13 Assorted things. mamster 43m42 00m42 Alanis Marmoset. ddyte 37m08 00m07 Faster and faster lap times in Mario Kart 64 inky 35m34 00m00 *secret* things. Uptime: 08d14 End of List. mamster says, "Oh, I think you'll realize." Whizzard says, "I know. I'll email you the adverts for Avalon, and delay it another 6 months." (From mamster) YOU BASTARD a pile of pies;pile;pies has been created as #1857. Description set. Flag set. ddyte predicts Adam will end up with Jenifer and we'll all have to stop laughing about this. mamster says, "How do you turn off that spy thingy? It's lame." You say, "@set me = !spy" mamster says (to ddyte), "Probably, but you couldn't make me stop laughing about this at gunpoint." Ellison says, "but... if you do SCORE, you'll notice that you can never change from a 12.7, which of course, is PIE-SWITCHING BASTARD..." switch pies has been created as #1858. Opened. mamster says, "Great." It looks like an ordinary pile of piles. Obvious Actions: switch pies Success set. mamster says (to Ellison), "And if you *don't* score...uh, never mind." You dropped a pile of pies. ddyte says, "If they get married, I will fly to the US just to hear the pie story at the reception." Whizzard puts on a riot shield. mamster says, "I can't wait until Adam sees that." User On Idle Doing adr 03d14 08h29 persuading dodecahedrons neild 01h16 02m39 = Racing the clock to October 1st. Spatch 01h15 51m14 RAMPANT UNIVERSAL ESPLODING Ellison 01h11 00m46 stuff and stuff Whizzard 57m49 00m08 Assorted things. mamster 45m17 00m01 Alanis Marmoset. ddyte 38m43 00m10 Faster and faster lap times in Mario Kart 64 inky 37m09 00m00 *secret* things. Uptime: 08d14 End of List. neild asks, "Can't we all just get along?" Adventurer's Lounge Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface - the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north. Recently, this seems to have been converted into some kind of game room. A wooden coffee table is surrounded by several chairs, cushions and pillows. On the coffee table you can see an interesting board game. You can see: board game, dartboard, painting, blackboard, magazines, Ronco Spray-on Hair, Ronco Pocket Fisherman, DorianX, Ronco Nite Lite (tm), "I'm Too Stupid for I-0" support group, No Middle Name Support Group, a prize for the 1997 IF competition, stein, the Abbott, adr, Blob, robot mouse, orc, fatted calf, Whizzard2, Ellison, neild, Whizzard, mamster, ddyte, a pile of pies Visible Exits: east, north Ellison says, "we should make this place until a pie heaven for when he gets here" mamster says, "No." neild laughs. Ellison says, "and some onion rings too" You say, "dammit, I want to hear this story" neild says, "I'm e-mailing Adam to get his butt over here." mamster says (to neild), "Good idea. Or just call him." neild says, "I don't have his number. You call him." mamster says (to neild), "Dammit, I can't find the number." ddyte says, "This is even better than the story about the marine with no sex life." Ellison says, "well, inky, if I had known how good a story it would've been, and how to log back then, I would've" mamster says, "This is *much* better." You say, "I'm logging part of this" You say, "I'll use it for blackmail later on" neild says, "I think I'm zeroing in on the Goofy thing..." Whizzard scrolls back. Nope, he's safe. Ellison says, "I'm going to go check my mail... brb" Ellison has disconnected. Ellison goes home. Ellison arrives at home. [Ellison] "Grey is for betrayal, what you did to me. White is for the blinding light I know I'll never see. Better off next time." mamster says, "Nope. I wrote it on a piece of paper, put it on my desk, and it disappeared into a void." neild says, "NEVER keep voids on your desk." neild says, "They always come back to haunt you." mamster says, "One day I put my hand in it. That was ugly." ddyte says, "It was an accident. He didn't realise when he removed teh sticky label that the warranty actually became *a* void." mamster says, "I even have the piece of paper on which I wrote stuff he was telling me, but no phone number. It was funny, though--he left a three-minute phone message telling us to call right away, but he neglected to leave his number until the next message." mamster says, "So we were hovering over the machine chanting, 'Number?' 'Number?'" neild asks, "Did it work?" mamster says, "Yes. The next message had the number." ddyte imagines a table of IF-ers at Adam's reception laughing themselves stupid at endless mentions of teh phrase `pie switching bastard'. mamster says, "They should hold the ceremony on the MUD." mamster says, "You can't kibitz at a live wedding. Which is too bad, really, because those vows get long and sappy." neild says, "Wow. An I-F wedding." ddyte says, "With room for mamster comments (tm)." neild says, "Actually, I guess Neil Brown should organize it." mamster exclaims, "Absolutely!" ddyte says, "Do you, Jenifer take Adam to be your lawful wedded husband, for chocolate coconut or lime, for crust or no crust.." neild says, "Someone at work had a dream last weekend that the Lady Di funeral had the MST3K 'bots commenting on it." mamster cracks up. ddyte says, "Oh god." You say (to neild), "that's an excellent idea." Adventurer's Lounge Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface - the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north. Recently, this seems to have been converted into some kind of game room. A wooden coffee table is surrounded by several chairs, cushions and pillows. On the coffee table you can see an interesting board game. You can see: board game, dartboard, painting, blackboard, magazines, Ronco Spray-on Hair, Ronco Pocket Fisherman, DorianX, Ronco Nite Lite (tm), "I'm Too Stupid for I-0" support group, No Middle Name Support Group, a prize for the 1997 IF competition, stein, the Abbott, adr, Blob, robot mouse, orc, fatted calf, Whizzard2, neild, Whizzard, mamster, ddyte, a pile of pies, Ellison Visible Exits: east, north Ellison has connected. [Ellison] A ghostly voice echoes: "Black is for the night time that preys upon the day... Red is for the blood that flows like rivers in our veins." You conclude, rightfully so, that Ellison has joined the ifMUD. mamster says, "Have you read the Onion this week? The Mother Teresa story is hilarious." You say, "except it shouldn't be the MST3k people, it should be the people from.. umm.." neild says, "I wish they had been. I wish I'd even had that *dream*." Whizzard says, "Hmm....For some reason the saying "Old IFers never die, they just restore, restart, or quit. Springs to mind." You ask, "what's that new tv show that came out that's like beavis and butthead, only cruder?" mamster says, "Or do Amusing things." Ellison says, "hmmmm, my Onion doesn't have a Mother Theresa story..." neild says, "South Park." ddyte asks, "Men Behaving Badly?" You say, "south park, yeah." mamster asks (to Ellison), "Print or web?" You say, "they should provide a commentary on the funeral." mamster says (to Ellison), "This is on the web." mamster says, "I still haven't actually seen south park, just the trailer bit that got him the job, but the best part was when they got to meet Brian Boitano." Ellison says, "print... stories I have- LOCAL TEEN HATES LIFE, MOM, HAIR; CHRISTIAN ROCKERS DENY KICKING ASS; WORLD WAR II VETERAN ALLOWED TO KILL ONE LAST GERMAN" mamster says (to Ellison), "That was last week's. The MT story is at www.theonion.com." ddyte says, "It never got any better than the story about teh Death Star child minding facility." mamster says, "I just subscribed to the print edition and haven't gotten my first issue yet. But I can't wait." You say, "tres excellent" Adventurer's Lounge Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface - the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north. Recently, this seems to have been converted into some kind of game room. A wooden coffee table is surrounded by several chairs, cushions and pillows. On the coffee table you can see an interesting board game. You can see: board game, dartboard, painting, blackboard, magazines, Ronco Spray-on Hair, Ronco Pocket Fisherman, DorianX, Ronco Nite Lite (tm), "I'm Too Stupid for I-0" support group, No Middle Name Support Group, a prize for the 1997 IF competition, stein, the Abbott, adr, Blob, robot mouse, orc, fatted calf, Whizzard2, neild, Whizzard, mamster, ddyte, a pile of pies, Ellison Visible Exits: east, north mamster says (to ddyte), "That sounds funny. I liked the story about the monkey supercollider." You say, "also, it carries savage love" You ask, "hmm.. wonder if the stranger's on the web?" mamster asks, "Really?" mamster says (to inky), "I don't think so. I think they have email but no web site." Ellison says, "I have a good portion of last year's Milwaukee prints..." Whizzard says, "Hot damn. My moons over Tellene info arrived. Now I can finish my book." You say (to mamster), "they have a website, it looks like, but it's just "watch this space, here's our email address"" mamster says, "Yep, I just learned that myself." You say, "dammit, I want to read story minute." mamster exclaims, "I love story minute!" mamster says, "Sometimes. It's uneven, but when it's good, it's very, very good." You say, "yessa." Adventurer's Lounge Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface - the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north. Recently, this seems to have been converted into some kind of game room. A wooden coffee table is surrounded by several chairs, cushions and pillows. On the coffee table you can see an interesting board game. You can see: board game, dartboard, painting, blackboard, magazines, Ronco Spray-on Hair, Ronco Pocket Fisherman, DorianX, Ronco Nite Lite (tm), "I'm Too Stupid for I-0" support group, No Middle Name Support Group, a prize for the 1997 IF competition, stein, the Abbott, adr, Blob, robot mouse, orc, fatted calf, Whizzard2, neild, Whizzard, mamster, ddyte, a pile of pies, Ellison Visible Exits: east, north You say, "I also like the magic whistle and tom the dancing bug" neild asks (to mamster), "Have you seen Dream World News?" mamster says, "Nope." You say, "the latter might be on the web, though. hmm." (From mamster) In the rotating dessert case of life, we are all at the hands of the pie-switching bastard. You say, "hey, look at this if you've got a browser handy: http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/sf/filk/xena.htm" Whizzard eyes his ugly stick again. Whizzard says, "I'll stick yer pies....you bastard." Whizzard says, "sigh. switch. switch." ddyte puts on some SSQ and enjoys the laid back style. neild says, "Carol Lay used to be on my food co-op shift." You say, "woo woo, this modern world" neild is lagging badly, thanks to The Onion taking up all his bandwidth. Ellison says, "we have this modern world..." mamster asks, "Who's Carol Lay?" mamster says, "This Modern World is great." Whizzard says, "Hunh. I'm background printing with 6 other programs running. No lag, on a 486." Whizzard says, "It occurs to me that web browsers are poorly written." mamster says (to Whizzard), "Your OS must have preemptive pie-switching." Ellison chuckles Whizzard says, "That's it." neild asks, "Isn't Story Minute Carol Lay?" Whizzard drags mamster into the next room and 'treats him like a King.' mamster says, "Oh yeah." You say, "Opera is an excellent web browser." Adventurer's Lounge Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface - the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north. Recently, this seems to have been converted into some kind of game room. A wooden coffee table is surrounded by several chairs, cushions and pillows. On the coffee table you can see an interesting board game. You can see: board game, dartboard, painting, blackboard, magazines, Ronco Spray-on Hair, Ronco Pocket Fisherman, DorianX, Ronco Nite Lite (tm), "I'm Too Stupid for I-0" support group, No Middle Name Support Group, a prize for the 1997 IF competition, stein, the Abbott, adr, Blob, robot mouse, orc, fatted calf, Whizzard2, neild, Whizzard, mamster, ddyte, a pile of pies, Ellison Visible Exits: east, north You say, "but is win95 only" Ellison begins to riot but then just eyes the pile of pies hungrily mamster says, "I should go. Laurie is late and could be trying to call." mamster laughs. neild says, "Anyway, Dream World News is people's actual dreams reported as tabloid news items..." mamster asks (to neild), "On the web?" neild says, "No, in print." Whizzard says, "Well, me and the porcelain god are gonna go discuss the orbits of the three moons of a fictional world." mamster says, "I see. Gotta run. See you all around." neild says, "Bye, Matthew." mamster says, "Bye now." mamster has disconnected. mamster heads back to Jolly Roger's. [mamster] mamster has disconnected from ifMUD. Ellison says, "bye" Whizzard idles. Three moons and all that. Ellison says, "ah, so that's Mathew Amsterdam... or whatever" Adventurer's Lounge Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface - the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north. Recently, this seems to have been converted into some kind of game room. A wooden coffee table is surrounded by several chairs, cushions and pillows. On the coffee table you can see an interesting board game. You can see: board game, dartboard, painting, blackboard, magazines, Ronco Spray-on Hair, Ronco Pocket Fisherman, DorianX, Ronco Nite Lite (tm), "I'm Too Stupid for I-0" support group, No Middle Name Support Group, a prize for the 1997 IF competition, stein, the Abbott, adr, Blob, robot mouse, orc, fatted calf, Whizzard2, neild, Whizzard, ddyte, a pile of pies, Ellison Visible Exits: east, north neild wonders what that would make Laurie. You ask, "Laurie Amsterdam?" ddyte asks, "Who?" neild says, "Laurie, Matthew's wife. (Scroll back.)" neild says, "She's late, and could be trying to call." neild says, "She's the Burton in Amster-Burton." Ellison says, "I just recognized Matthew's name from the newsgroup... (although it's probably in his 'finger' or something)" You say, "aha" inky sings "who put the burton in the amster-burton" Ellison exclaims, "funny!" ddyte says, "Ah. Oh." Adventurer's Lounge Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface - the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north. Recently, this seems to have been converted into some kind of game room. A wooden coffee table is surrounded by several chairs, cushions and pillows. On the coffee table you can see an interesting board game. You can see: board game, dartboard, painting, blackboard, magazines, Ronco Spray-on Hair, Ronco Pocket Fisherman, DorianX, Ronco Nite Lite (tm), "I'm Too Stupid for I-0" support group, No Middle Name Support Group, a prize for the 1997 IF competition, stein, the Abbott, adr, Blob, robot mouse, orc, fatted calf, Whizzard2, neild, Whizzard, ddyte, a pile of pies, Ellison Visible Exits: east, north ddyte exclaims, "Eeeagh! Iron bird!" neild rolls on the floor, convulsed with laughter. Ellison asks, "is that a reference to something?" neild would say, but can't stop laughing. Ellison asks, "is that the Animal House thing that was mentioned before?" neild says, "It's an item from a Top Ten list of "Things Abraham Lincoln would say if he were alive today."" ddyte says, "It harks back to a particularly stupid conversation of a couple of days ago." You say, "ooh ooh" You exclaim, "story minute's on the web!" Ellison says, "hehe, I like the emotion of it" ddyte admits to having been too thick to get the joke at the time :-/ Ellison puts his Jonathan Richman CD in the cd drive... Ellison says, "hmmmm, sure is slow in here" ddyte sticks with SSQ. Ellison asks, "what is SSQ?" You say, "it's a database programming language" You say, "no, wait, that's SQl" neild rolls on the floor, convulsed with laughter. Adam says, "Jennifer cracks up. Pie Boy shoots me a dirty look..." Adam says, "...and drops my pie on the floor." ddyte exclaims, "Help! It's happening again!" neild cant type laughing too mcuch Ellison exclaims, "lol!" Adam says, "Jennifer winces." neild exclaims, "Stop! Stop! I canb't breathe!" Adam says, "Incompetent Pie Boy now makes his third attempt to get me my pie." Adam says, "This time he selects the correct pie..." Ellison says, "(ah, I miss all of mamster's 'and then Jennifer dumps his ass right there!!!!'s)" Adam says, "...and manages to get the slice onto the plate..." You ask, "she does?" Adam says, "...but the crust breaks off." Adam says, "The manager comes over." Ellison whispers, "no, but mamster kept saying that" You whisper "damn, i missed it" to Ellison. Adam says, "He offers me a discount if I'll take the broken slice." Adam says, "I say, 'Give me the girl and I'll pay full price!'" Adam says, "(No, not really.)" Dan_Wood says, "Must be looking into the pie-related incidents..." ddyte says, "You did not." Adam says, "I take the pie and Incompetent Pie Boy apologizes." Ellison says, "haha" Adam says, "That's where the anecdote sort of... peters out..." neild says, "Thank god. I almost asphyxiated." You say, "and you spit on him, and standing aside his prone body, shout "now who is the more masculine and virile???"" Adam laughs. Whizzard asks, "Then you pushed him off the balcony, right?" neild says, "You chase him outside. He stops, stunned, looks up and shouts..." Adam exclaims (to inky), "I love that phrase!" ddyte has disconnected. [ddyte] ddyte is gone from here. But you sense another, like him, perhaps in France... ddyte has connected. [ddyte] You feel a curious disturbance in the Force. Either that or ddyte has connected to ifMUD. neild says, "'Aieeee! Iron bird!'" Dan_Wood says (to Whizzard), "No, no... Allen Funt popped out of the bushes." Ellison says, "lol, inky" Adam says, "The moral of the story: Mmmm, pie." Whizzard says, "Nice story. :)" neild says, "Damn fine story." neild asks, "How was the pie?" Adam says, "Great pie." You say, "you know, I'd like some pie now" Ellison exclaims, "hehe, it should be!" Whizzard sighs. Now he must explain to his publisher why the information they sent him is no more useful this time than the last time they sent it. neild says, "Mmmm, pie." You ask, "do you think any pie places are open at midnight?" Dan_Wood says (to neild), "Kinda falls outside the scope of the story. :)" Whizzard says, "I dunno, but I want chocolate cream." Whizzard says (to Adam), "You bastard." Whizzard says (to Adam), "Making me hungry for pie in the middle of the night." Adam says, "Hey, at least I'm not a pie-switching bastard." neild says, "And now I must go. G'night, all..." You say, "hmm.. I'd like blackberry or blueberry pie right now" Adam says, "Anyway, I'm writing a song about it." Dan_Wood wants pie now.... :( Whizzard says, "True, true." You say, "g'night neild." ddyte wonders what sort of country this America is, with so many flavours of pie available 24 hours a day. Adam says (to neild), "Seeya." Ellison says, "bye, Neil" neild was going to stick around to hear about the song, but feels he should leave, what with everyone saying bye... neild has disconnected. neild clicks his heels together three times, and vanishes. [neild] neild has disconnected from ifMUD. Dan_Wood looks at Graham Nelson's page. ddyte says, "I can see such pie switching behaviour runs contrary to the very deepest tenets of the American way." Whizzard says, "America is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. ;)" Whizzard says, "Nah, USA is pretty okay." Ellison says, "ya know, you guys make a real life gathering sound really nice... maybe some day" You say, "glargh" ddyte says, "Pay for my air fare. Thanks." Whizzard says, "Real life, eh." Ellison exclaims, "please, restrain that enthusiasm!" Whizzard says, "Then I'd be quiet and intimidated by all the people." Ellison says, "hmmmm, well, if we don't like Avalon, maybe you'll deserve a little intimidation.... grrrrrrr" Whizzard says, "Put me in a room with N people (where N is a number > 3) and you have N-1 talkative people, and me, the guy in the corner, counting the ceiling tiles." Dan_Wood says (to Whizzard), "Naw, we'd all bring notebooks,hook into a server, and chat." ddyte says, "That will be me on Saturday at this party I've been forced to go to." Whizzard says, "Oddly, that would probably serve to break the ice." Ellison says, "at least, then, we'd hear eachother's giggles..." ddyte says, "Point is, in this group, 90% of us are likely that sort of person." Dan_Wood is too gregarious to be PC. :) inky larfs. Whizzard says, "I like to write my thoughts down, re-read them, and then say them." ddyte says, "Anyway, we could just get Adam to tell the pie story." Whizzard says, "In RL, you can't really do that" Ellison says, "ah, I say stupid things on both paper and in real life... not much of a difference... although I do tend to ramble in real life..." Dan_Wood says, "As you do here, Ellison." Ellison says, "people know me for my long stories with no points... or at least, points that don't justify the story" Ellison says, "aw, shucks, thanks" Whizzard says, "I can be witty, but usually only in retrospect." Dan_Wood smells Geeks. :) Whizzard says, "Hmm, must be my cologne, Eu de Unpopular." Ellison says, "reminds me of a comedian on one of those eighties shows... he was talking about how this guy at a bar was being a jerk to him... and how later he thought of what he SHOULD have said... he should have said "oh yeah?"" Ellison says, "(I'm sure that the whole joke was lost in translation)" Whizzard says, "Only a few times in my life have I ever been pissed enough to stand up to some jerk." Adam says, "I'm about the same in real life as I am here. The difference is that in real life you'd all be overwhelmed by my raw animal sexuality." ddyte says, "I am here too Adam." Ellison says, "hehe" Whizzard says, "That's gross and immoral, Adam." Whizzard says, "I mean, love your pets...but..." You say, "excellent." Ellison says, "haha" Dan_Wood says (to Adam), "Um, BO != Animal Sexuality" You say, "I have a brine shrimp" ddyte has a cat who enjoys walking on the keyboard the second he starts writing Inform. Adam says, "More seriously, I am about the same. I don't seek people out, but if approached, I'm not shy. That took years of work." Whizzard says, "Took me years of effort to just start talking after getting to know people." Ellison says, "well, I'm extroverted enough for people to confuse me for one, but I'm really an introvert..." ddyte had years of work cancelled out just recently. But I've harped enough on that topic. Dan_Wood has always been gregarious and extroverted. You say, "blah." You ask, "really, dd?" inky is shy and hates people. ddyte wonders what part of what he said the "really?" was for. You say, "the years of work cancelled out bit. last i heard you had a bound thesis and were looking for an advisor." Ellison says, "(going to go check my mail)" Ellison has disconnected. Ellison goes home. Ellison arrives at home. [Ellison] "Grey is for betrayal, what you did to me. White is for the blinding light I know I'll never see. Better off next time." ddyte says, "Oh, not that work :-) Years of work becoming less of a social scaredy-cat." Whizzard asks, "Hey. Does a moon have to be full to be eclipsed?" You say, "aha." You say, "um." You say, "hrm." Whizzard says, "I think so. Here's my logic:" Whizzard says, "The moon's light is just reflections from the sun. So, a moon, in order to have the planet pass between it and the sun, must be full." You say, "sounds reasonable." You say, "but i can never figure out what the diff is between an eclipse and a new moon" Whizzard says, "Ah, new moon is just facing the dark side of the moon." Dan_Wood holds his head as he notices that there's a "Pick Up The Phonebooth And Die III" Adam says, "A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth's shadow hits the moon." Ellison has connected. [Ellison] A ghostly voice echoes: "Black is for the night time that preys upon the day... Red is for the blood that flows like rivers in our veins." You conclude, rightfully so, that Ellison has joined the ifMUD. ddyte says, "The eclipse is actually teh earth shadowing the moon." Adam exclaims, "Timing!" Ellison asks, "not I, surely?" Whizzard says, "I wish I had taken more astronomy in college." Adam says, "No. I beat ddyte by about 0.2 seconds." ddyte tried to explain this to his (ex) mother in law by means of a beach ball and two soft toys orbiting around it. Ellison says, "hmmmm, I'm taking an astronomy class this quarter" Whizzard says, "Take careful notes. You may someday have to calculate the orbits of three fictional moons around a fictional planet." Ellison takes note to take careful notes Whizzard says, "Granted, the odds aren't great, but I never thought I'D have to do that, and yet, here I am." ddyte hopes this is Avalon related. Whizzard says, "Hah." Ellison asks, "it's probably book related?" Whizzard says, "RPG book." ddyte says, ":-(" ddyte says, "You don't realise Avalon is all I have left in my life, Whizzard..." Ellison says, "hehe, dd" ddyte says, "Ok, that and finishing !@#$%^&* Lurking Horror." Whizzard says, "Christ, so I get the blame when you play it, don't like it, and kill yourself, is that it? I'm never gonna release it now." ddyte says, "Well that didn't have the desired effect..." Ellison exclaims, "but...but.. then you won't get his $25?!?!" ddyte goes back to the plan again. Thrust, parry, spin... Whizzard says, "By the way, your bill is a bit bent." ddyte painfully straightens it out. Dan_Wood idly ponders playing Avalon... ddyte wonders if the whole IF community will die of exhaustion after the 97 contest. Whizzard says, "Probably." Whizzard says, "71. Criminy." Ellison says, "I wonder if I'll have any time for IF at school..." Whizzard says, "Down to 68, sure, but still." Adam says, "I'm still planning on playing 'em all." ddyte asks, "Who droped out?" ddyte says, "dropped" Dan_Wood asks, "Is Avalon on gmd?" ddyte guffaws. Whizzard says, "YEp. It's well hidden." Adam says (to ddyte), "Hey, even though it has nothing to do with the rest of the song, I'm beginning 'Incompetent Pie Boy' with your suggested couplet." Whizzard says, "Look through the tads/examples/ dir." ddyte can't even remember what that was. You sure it was mine? Adam says (to ddyte), "Think so. 'She gave me an onion ring / It made me cry.'" ddyte thinks that was Neil's. ddyte says, "But feel free to name me in the credits :-)" Adam says (to ddyte), "You sure? I could've sworn..." ddyte says, "I am pretty sure. Maybe the space-time continuum did it, like whoever told me all puzzles need 2 viable solutions..." ddyte says, "My *entire* game changed for the better in one night after a discussion here, and everyone denied they ever said that." ddyte throws a dart. It slows down as it approches the dartboard, stops mere millimeters from the inner bullseye, and then falls to the floor. ddyte throws a dart. It scores a double 16. Adam has disconnected. Adam has connected. Whizzard asks, "2 solutions?" Adam says, "Whoa! Got knocked off." Whizzard says, "Bleh." Adam says, "I've always said every puzzle should have two solutions." Adam says, "Just like every room (in real life) has to have two exits..." Adam says, "...even if one's a window." ddyte asks, "Did you say it in that discussion?" ddyte notes the room he is in now has but one exit. ddyte says, "Ah it doesn't matter. Your name is in teh credits anyway." Whizzard says, "I HAVE puzzles with 2+ solutions, just not all of them." You say, "i wrote a couplet too" You say, "i involving onion rings" ddyte says, "All the involved (difficult) puzzles I wrote have 2 solutions." You say, "but i don't know if that was it" Whizzard says, "For instance, the turing machine in my game has 1 solve state, but many ways to get there." Adam says (to inky), "Maybe it was you. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Neil." Whizzard asks, "What about Spatch?" ddyte asks, "Anyway Adam, when you and Jen get married, can we come to the reception to hear the pie story in person? Pleeeeaaaase?" Ellison says, "(going to check my nonexistant mail again... as Danny Elfman sings: 'where do all my friends go?')" Ellison has disconnected. Ellison goes home. Ellison arrives at home. [Ellison] "Grey is for betrayal, what you did to me. White is for the blinding light I know I'll never see. Better off next time." Ellison has connected. [Ellison] A ghostly voice echoes: "Black is for the night time that preys upon the day... Red is for the blood that flows like rivers in our veins." You conclude, rightfully so, that Ellison has joined the ifMUD. inky plays pick up dawn mcgatney and die You say, "that's excellent" Adventurer's Lounge Candles on the wood-panelled walls create a comfortably dark atmosphere. Hand-drawn maps are taped to nearly every surface - the walls, the ceiling, the trophy case in the corner. Seating is plentiful. A small storage closet is to the north. Recently, this seems to have been converted into some kind of game room. A wooden coffee table is surrounded by several chairs, cushions and pillows. On the coffee table you can see an interesting board game. You can see: board game, dartboard, painting, blackboard, magazines, Ronco Spray-on Hair, Ronco Pocket Fisherman, DorianX, Ronco Nite Lite (tm), "I'm Too Stupid for I-0" support group, No Middle Name Support Group, a prize for the 1997 IF competition, stein, the Abbott, adr, Blob, robot mouse, orc, fatted calf, Whizzard2, Whizzard, ddyte, a pile of pies, Adam, Dan_Wood, Ellison Visible Exits: east, north Adam says, "I find the chances of me marrying Jennifer Fain are slightly less than the chances of me getting torn apart by a pack of wild poodles." You say, "um." You ask, "so what does she see in that ham-fisted pie-dropper anyway?" Adam says, "Dunno." ddyte says, "Ok I gotta go play some Nintendo. Adam, you and Jennifer *will* be together. I just know it. That Socrates comment was the turning point in your life." ddyte exclaims, "Bye all!" You say, "bye dd" ddyte has disconnected. ddyte hops inside that bag he is carrying and disappears from the object tree... [ddyte] ddyte is gone from here. But you sense another, like him, perhaps in France... Adam says, "But, I mean, it's gotta show something that he followed her down from Massachusetts to North Carolina and got a job slinging pie (poorly) just to be with her..." Whizzard says, "Oh boy, 6 new rai-f messages." Whizzard says, "Drat, no BVE posts." Adam says, "Steven Howard's got a good response." inky hums. User On Idle Doing adr 03d16 10h08 persuading dodecahedrons Ellison 02m40 02m40 I decide to go get some pie. Mmm, pie. Adam 07m00 00m04 something non-rigorous, and therefore pointless Whizzard 02h35 00m37 Assorted things. inky 02h15 00m00 *secret* things. *Dan_Wood 47m45 12m17 Only Root knows, and he ain't about to say. Uptime: 08d16 End of List. You say, "i wonder how he got that job" Adam says, "Ooh, a very good response." You ask, "and if he can't swing it in the pie biz, how will he make it anywhere else?" You say, "he probably wants to be an actor." Adam asks (to inky), "In Durham?" Whizzard asks, "Bah, if he can't sling pies, what good is he?" Whizzard says, "hours of unending fun." Adam says, "See, this isn't helping." Whizzard says, "What an odd phrase." Ellison shivers.... cold Adam says, "He can't even sling a pie, and he's with Jen Fain." Adam asks, "What's that make me?" You say, "lower than a ham-fisted incompetent pie-slinging dog" Adam says, "You got it." Whizzard says, "not with Jen Fain, I assume." Ellison says, "hehe" You say, "but you've got a lot of personality." You say, "hmm.. lab's closing." User On Idle Doing adr 03d16 10h12 persuading dodecahedrons Ellison 07m26 01m14 I decide to go get some pie. Mmm, pie. Adam 11m46 01m26 something non-rigorous, and therefore pointless Whizzard 02h40 01m20 Assorted things. inky 02h19 00m00 *secret* things. *Dan_Wood 52m31 17m03 Only Root knows, and he ain't about to say. Uptime: 08d16 End of List. You say, "will tune in same time tomorrow" You say, "or whatever." Adam says, "Seeya."